Ben & Jerry's Releases Limited Batch of Cannoli Ice Cream

It's official. Ben & Jerry's has released their latest limited edition ice cream pint flavor. It's a new take on an Italian pastry that the ice cream mavens have used in the past — cannoli.

According to the Huffington Post, the new cannoli-flavored limited batch will feature mascarpone ice cream, fudge-covered cannoli pieces, and a mascarpone swirl. The flavor is beginning to hit supermarket shelves and will be available until January, when the next limited batch will make its debut. Cannoli cannot be found in Ben & Jerry's ice cream shop locations; the new treat is only sold in pint form.

This isn't the first time that Ben & Jerry's has taken the infamous Italian pastry to the freezer. The company explained its reasoning for trying the flavor again on its Facebook page: "We made a cannoli flavor with ricotta before and it bombed. It was called Holy Cannoli. This is a new take on it and we think it tastes better than Holy Cannoli did. We hope you do too!"

Ben & Jerry's spokesperson Liz Stewart elaborated on the motivation for a new and improved Cannoli flavor: "Putting out a different Cannoli ice cream flavor is our chance to show our fans just how much we love playing with our food: we love it so much that we don't just stop at one final flavor!"

Did you try Ben & Jerry's Holy Cannoli flavor? Will you buy a pint of the new mascarpone-based flavor?